Want to Make an Outsized Impact on Students? Here Are 5 Simple Teaching Tips is the headline of my one of my latest Education Week columns. Letting students know at the start of a lesson that it’s OK to make mistakes builds trust and promotes growth. Here are some excerpts ..read more

viarami / Pixabay   April is Arab American Heritage Month, and this is a belated post sharing related resources: I’ve published several connected Ed Week columns. Arab American Heritage Month is from The Smithsonian. The Arab American Foundation has many related resources. New York City Public Schools also have many resources. The History Channel also has resources ..read more

LubosHouska / Pixabay   The UN and UNESCO say today is both “World Book & Copyright Day” and “UN English Language Day.” It’s also celebrated in some countries, particularly in the UK, as “World Book Night.” Here’s an explanation from My English Club about UN English Language Day: English, along with French, is one of the two working languages of the United Nations, and one of the Organization’s six official languages. Because it is so widely spoken, English is often referred to as a “world language”, or the lingua franca of the modern era. English Language Day at the UN is cele ..read more

  Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2022 – PART ONE. Here are this week’s picks: This week @MarcusLuther6 wrote about why creating multiple exemplars as a teacher can be so impactful: https://t.co/7SfTkrrzzt — The Broken Copier (@thebrokencopier) March 29, 2023 Connecting High School Science to Sociocultural Issues is from Edutopia. Thank you all for the This I Believe mentor text suggestions. Here is the ..read more

(I’m republishing posts on my My All-Time Favorite Posts list. This one appeared in 2019. You can see them all here.)   mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Earlier this summer, I was asked to share advice to the over two hundred students entering the Sacramento State University teacher credentialing program. I shared one thing: Use inquiry, not judgment. I told them that they might very well see a number of actions taken by their supervising teacher in the classroom that they thought were the wrong move. However, instead of immediately rushing to judgment – whether in their head or out loud, I sug ..read more

  Backdrop hosts a number of free, and cool, geography games, including ones that show you paintings and you have to identify on a map what location is depicted in them. Its sister site, TripGeo, also hosts some more straightforward geography games. I’m adding them to . Thanks to Google Maps Mania for the tip ..read more

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay   The United Nations has declared April 25th to be World Malaria Day. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About World Malaria Day ..read more

  This series used to be called “The Most Popular Posts Of The Week.” However, Google has changed their analytics program and, for the life of me, I can’t seem to figure out how to transition to it. And, since the popularity of posts has never affected what I post in the least, I figure now I’ll just list my choices for the best posts that have appeared here in the past week (or two). You might also be interested in IT’S THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BLOG – HERE ARE THE FORTY ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR POSTS and MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE POSTS (2023 EDITION!). Here are my choices for the ..read more

So Much Research, So Little Time for Teachers to Put It Into Practice is the headline of one of my latest Ed Week columns. Education research is voluminous, but teachers often aren’t shown how to adapt the findings into their practice. Here are some excerpts ..read more

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